Indru Netru Naalai Movie Information

Movie Information.

Movie: Indru Netru Naalai (2015).
Director: Ravi Kumar. R.
Starring: Vishnu, Mia George.
Music: Hiphop Tamizha.
Distributed by: Studio Green.
Release Date:

Country: India.
Language: Tamil.
Mp3 Bit Rate: 190 And 320 Kbps.


Indru Netru Naalai Story Line

CV Kumar, the savior of content driven new-age cinema has once again put his money on a newbie director, Ravi Kumar, who has trekked his way to the silver screen through the short film route. Fantasy as a genre in Kollywood has not been done enough justice after the yester year dubbed films of Vittalacharya or the more recent form of ‘Amman’ movie brigade from the late director Ramanarayanan. In both the cases the story had some super-natural elements tucked in and the fantasy was more of a consequence. Also there were some one-off movies in the past like ‘En Rathathin Rathame’ where Bhagyaraj stumbles on a gadget that makes him invisible, ‘Enthiran’, being a science fiction fantasy on a bigger scale was a success story and the recent one being ‘Oru Kanniyum Moonu Kalavaanikalum’ that had bunch of ‘what if’ scenarios spun into play. In all these cases the fantasies were much more pronounced without any supernatural elements. ‘INN’ also does the same with some neat packaging and narrative structure.

Two guys, Elango (Vishnu), who aspires to become a businessman and Pulivetti Arumugam (Karunakaran), a small time astrologer chance upon a time machine that is sent from the future by a scientist (Arya, once again in a cameo). They use it for their personal gains, until some drastic changes happen when one of them changes a pattern in the past which in turn has some adverse effects in the present. The rest is about them mending the things that were disturbed and restoring normalcy.

The concept or the rules of traveling back and forth in time was well laid out with the aid of a nerdy scientist, Giridhara Parthasarathy (T.M.Karthik in a fine role that had a lot of room for subtle and thoughtful humor). Thus the screenplay didn’t suffer from major logical loopholes and the narrative stayed clear without indulging in something like ‘Interstellar’ kind of esoteric anomalies. The movie was aimed to stay light with a simple love story spun into a tense plot and packaged with a time travel based fantasy. This combo would have held water as a script on paper. For it to take shape on screen the director should have diligently shepherded his ideas from his head and then onto the sets. He has done exactly that.

However there was a ‘bad guy’ plot that was thrust into the narrative. For him to be labeled bad, there were some occasional blood splashes and hurried chases. But the same plot was used to further the narrative in the second half without evoking much tension but managed to milk some comic relief. Karunakaran has sealed his position as the Santhaanam replacement and he seems be going through a purple patch. His timing and dry humor was outstanding. Vishnu had nothing special but he’s certainly isn’t a spoilsport. Miya George had another eye candy role. Supporting cast was fine with Jayaprakash and Anupama Kumar in yet another upper middle class parent’s role.

With a good script, fine execution and some decent performances, the movie could have garnered more love from the music and bgm department handled by ‘Hip-Hop’ Thamizhan, who is unable to establish a connect with the mood of the narrative. However barring these minor hiccups, this movie can be watched for its feel good appeal and comic relief.